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- 1585 (Creation)
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Educated at Clare Hall/College; Fellow of Clare. From 1618 to 1624 he was director to the affairs of the Virginia Company. Ferrar was ordained as a deacon in 1626 and founded the small Anglican community of Little Gidding, Huntingdonshire, shortly after his mother Mary Ferrar purchased the land there in 1624.
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The loose Ferrar prints were conserved in 2014-2015. Please note that the digital images of the prints were captured before conservation work took place.
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19.7 cm x 27.1 cm
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Engraver: Jan Collaert I
Publisher: Gerard de Jode
After Crispin van den Broeck (attributed to)
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Part of a set of four prints depicting the parable of the prodigal son.
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The print comes from the Thesaurus Veteris et Novi Testamenti, a collection of groups of prints by different designers and engravers published together by Gerard de Jode in Antwerp in 1585.
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Text in the lower margin from Luke 15: "Omnibus amissis opibus nudusque relictus, Cum porcis ventrem vult satiare suum."
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MS annotation on the verso of the print in the hand of John Ferrar: "93".
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Digital image of the print available online (subscription service only): https://www.virginiacompanyarchives.amdigital.co.uk/Documents/Detail/ferrar-print-205/519092?item=519093
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Mielke, H. Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 38, 1975, pp. 29-83 (51)